Gustav Wing (Orientalist)

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Gustav Leberecht wing (born February 18, 1802 in Budissin , Markgraftum Oberlausitz , † July 5, 1870 in Dresden ) was a German orientalist .

origin

He comes from a family of craftsmen. His parents were the tailor Johan Georg Traugott Flügel († 1817) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Wünsche (1769-1816), the daughter of the linen and fist weaver Johann Georg Wünsche .

Life

After attending grammar school in his hometown, Flügel studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig . Soon he discovered his passion for the oriental languages, which he studied in Vienna and Paris . In 1832 he became a professor at the Princely School of St. Afra in Meissen . But he had to stop this activity in 1850 for health reasons. From 1851 he was busy cataloging Arabic, Turkish and Persian manuscripts at the Princely Library in Vienna. Since December 1857 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and since 1859 a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1864 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Flugel's main work was the creation of a bibliographical and encyclopaedic lexicon of Haji Khalfa , with a Latin translation (London and Leipzig, 1835–1858). His edition of the Koran , which was produced in Leipzig (1834 and again in 1893) by the printer and publisher Carl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz , was of particular importance . With this a reliable Koran text was made available to European science for the first time. In the period that followed, almost all translations into European languages ​​were based on Flugel's edition.

family

Wing was married. His son Josef died in 1910 as a judge of the higher regional court in Dresden.

Works (selection)

  • Corani textus arabicus . Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1834 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  • Concordantiae Corani arabicae . Leipzig in 1842 and again in 1898 ( digitized version )
  • Mani, his teachings and his writings . Leipzig 1862
  • The grammatical schools of the Arabs . Leipzig 1862, digitized
  • History of the Arabs up to the fall of the Khalifate of Baghdad , digitized version
  • Al-Kindî called "the philosopher of the Arabs": a model of his time and his people , digitized
  • Ibn Kutlulbuga's Crown of Biographies . Leipzig 1862 ( digitized version at the Bavarian State Library)
  • Kitab-al-Fihrist , published posthumously

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gustav Leberecht wing. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 29, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Gustav Leberecht wing obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file)

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personal data
SURNAME Wing, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wing, Gustav Leberecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Budissin (Bautzen)
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1870
Place of death Dresden